Funny, I thought he was going to explain how the Puritans were seeking a haven where they would not be persecuted and potentially burned at the stake by Catholics.
Wrong. They were fleeing the church of England and her religious practices which they deemed as too Catholic.
Since England and the Netherlands was Protestant, and it was illegal to be Catholic there, your statement is not even possible.
But he didn’t , did he? And they weren’t fighting Catholics, they were fighting High Anglicans.
And chopping their heads off, apparently, whichif I had to choose, I would prefer to burning alive.
By that time, most of the Catholics had been persecuted or killed or had their Churches and Monasteries seized by the “church” of England. Apparently that wasn’t good enough for the Puritans.